Crowdsourcing

Homer Simpson climbed out of a television set on the second floor of Lewis Hall, walked down the stairs, strolled onto Flagler College campus and asked the first person he saw, “Hey, where can I get a beer?”

A Million Penguins, launched Feb. 1, 2007
Goal: A Single Narrative. The question: Can a community write a novel?

Reaction: “The man was clearly mad! No rules? It would never work! You may as well get penguins to write a novel!”

10 hits a second for the first few days

Nearly 1,500 people contributed to the writing and editing

75,000 people visited the site; more than 280,000 page views

Photo: Satan's Laundromat

Bananaman

Rewrote sections of the wiki-novel along a banana-based theme.

Example: In one scene, describing someone getting stabbed with a “stiletto knife,” Bananaman changed it to “a sharpened sliver of banana.”